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Friday, May 23, 2014

From AUSTIN to ZUZU

Vernissage June 5, 6-9pm

Exhibit June 5 - 29, 2014

On the walls

Ballerina Convention by Austin English In the window

Psychic Candy Hover Lands by Zuzu Knew

Austin English---whose books include Christina and Charles, The
Disgusting Room, and the Ignatz-Award nominated The Life Problem---will
present a suite of new drawings made in graphite and colored pencil for
this show of works on paper at
Monastiraki. In addition to these newer, never before exhibited
drawings, English will also present key pages from past comics. The show
will attempt to present a view of the different approaches to drawing
and image making that English has been working with over the past 10
years.

Zuzu Knew is an interdisciplinary artist who follows her
cravings to create wondermints. She often combines pastry, creature
infinity and prism vision to make living cartoons; drawings, analogue
projections, street art, costumes, and cake. Psychic Candy Hover Lands
portrays an environment in the flux of its naturally sweet and sour
landscape where at first glance cute and upon a closer look foreboding
elements balance each other out. Zu recently went to Greece for the
Koumaria Residency, launched the film Smile Stealers with collaborators
and does projections and styling for the band Syngja. She is part of an
ongoing documentary about her and her sister and their great
grandmother.

Founded in 1998, Monastiraki is a curiosity shop and art gallery located in the heart of the Mile End, Montreal. We have art prints, posters, small press, zines, vintage treasures and strange bits of ephemera you won't find anywhere else.